334 NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, 



and abdomen ferruginous ; flagellum long, filiform, cylindrical 

 throughout, black. 



Head concave anteriorly, vertex transversely acute, anterior 

 depression bounded by a delicate carina, the same extending 

 across vertex and separating front ocellus from lateral ocelli. 

 Wings hyaline, venation brown, postmarginal vein acute, longer 

 than stigmal vein. Hind femora much swollen and armed with 

 numerous minute black teeth. Abdomen pointed, ovate, ovi- 

 positor subexserted. 



Type— No. 4880, U.S.N.M. 



Hah. — Australia (A. Koebele, collector). 



Genus Encyrtocephalus, A.shmead, n.g. 

 (13) Encyrtocephalus simplicipes, n.sp. 



<£. — Length 2-2 mm. Robust, ferruginous; head anteriorly 

 shagreened; thorax above, including scutellum, closely, rugulosely 

 punctate; club of antenna? white; scape and pedicel yellowish, 

 funicle dark brown; abdomen rufo-piceous, obfuscated at apex; 

 wings hyaline, with a large discoidal fuscous cloud extending 

 across wings below marginal and stigmal veins, the cloud having, 

 however, a clear space just beneath marginal vein. 



Head transverse, wider than thorax, and very thin antero- 

 posteriorly, or lenticular, as in many genera in the Encyrtince. 

 Antennae 13-jointed, with 2 ring-joints, inserted below middle of 

 face, scape rather long, pedicel obconical, more than twice longer 

 than thick at apex; funicle 6-jointed, all the joints fluted, not 

 longer than wide, joints 4 to 6 a little wider than long. Thorax 

 much as in Decatoma, pronotum wide, about four times as wide 

 as long, mesonotum twice as wide as long, without distinct furrows. 

 Front wings with a very broad costal cell, marginal vein long, 

 two-thirds the length of subcostal vein, stigmal vein rather long 

 and gently curved and ending in a small club with an uncus, 

 while the postmarginal is nearly as long as the stigmal. Hind 



